What the hell is up with everyone o. Here? This was about a snake and now it's about race, food chain, and other bullshit! U all got your own opinions and that's fine. Everyone does not have to agree with your opinion and your opinion may not be correct to others. Get a life and do something productive instead of bitching about shit that no one cares about!! IDIOTS!

Its really a biggest snake in the world, who have eaten a man. I have seen several Amazing Videos and HD Pictures of snakes on various sites. But you are carrying out the amazing stuff here. Thanks for sharing the weird news with us.

Oh my god them this snake can take plane too because in june it was in south africa it eating woman them this fantastic snake can eat human and take plane too that amazing http://www.360nobs.com/2013/06/giant-snake-swallows-woman-in-south-africa-see-photo/

Idiots saying its the circle of life a man was eatin by a snake not a pig or cow sure u would feel very differently had the man been a relative of yours god forbid it the snake should be cutt open so relatives can lay him to rest

I'm sick of scum of the earth racists like you trying to represent the white majority. You don't. If you can't handle other races and cultures that's you're own problem. One I suggest you solve by putting a noose around your neck.

Sure it's nature, that's what it does, like us it has to survive. Comments about why it's not cut open, why should it be, if the story is true the man was dead long before being swallowed, it's a magnificent creature doing what it has to do for its time on the planet. Maybe take a look in the mirror and contemplate as we are killers and butchers of all creatures big and small. I'm with the snake here prob his best feed ever.

Darren, I like you. You said exactly what I was thinking. No one likes to think about being food for something else, but that's a normal fear primates of the human variety have.
You're also right that the person would be long dead by this point.
And to another commentator, no, I wouldn't feel differently if it was a relative of mine. Why? Because no relative of mine would be drunk and passed out to the point they wouldn't know they were being suffocated (since that's what constrictors do) and then eaten. If they're that stupid, and/or that much of an drunken mess,...I'll gladly present the Darwin Award to them personally.

I totally agree with you! I have 2 highly domesticated pythons & feed them frozen food only (they've never done live feeding) & I keep them fed well, but I wouldn't hesitate to think that if they were hungry, anything would be on their menu. It's nature. We do the same thing, but feel man is "superior" enough to do so. Again... it's nature & ANY creature is superior enough to keep themselves fed one way or another.

Very possible,Pythons have a very flexible mouth,jaw and neck.Their mouth can open wider about 8 times morethan their regular mouth and jaw size.If the prey is moving they will punch it with their head,nose area then wrap on it and strangle the prey with the very strong muscles they got breaking the prey bones and then they will pour a lot of saliva on the prey to easy swallow. They are devils.I have seen a python swallow an antelope..

Pythons are pythons,not a pet at all.they will swallow your kid even if you've had them for a decade thinking they are trained.

These comments have made my day! Yes it can and does happen. Contrary to some of the belief in some of these comments, some snakes do have the capability to swallow prey considerably bigger than themselves. As they have a ligament in their jaws with highly elastic properties, as well as their skin and gut, they can swallow prey the size of full grown adults. Yes it would take a very long time and digestion would take months, but it is possible and has happened.

Here in the Philippines there is a case same as that and also a horse was reported also and had been proven because they cut open the snake because it died when the snake swallow a full grown horse.... that's why dont tell me that it is impossible to swallow a human being... If you don't believe try it your self.... : P

Its a reticulated python Sigrid of course it can. And it certainly did happen. Know it alls thinking because they own a python it can't be true? Maybe study science/zoology like those of us who have or do some proper research to realise this can happen and HAS HAPPENED!

For anyone who has ever owned a snake you know when buying mice or whatever animal you feed it that you never buy anything wider than its head. While they can dislocate their jaw to open it further they cannot widen their jaw. The width of their jaw bone is not changeable.

When the snake dislocates it's jaw to swallow it's prey, the width of the jawbone is no longer a factor as the skin between the jaws can stretch quite far. All you need to do is look at the picture to see that this snake has swallowed something FAR bigger than it's head...

It's just so easy to report stuff that continues to represent developing countries as being strange, isn't it? Not only does one wonder what this has to do with the express intent of Instinct Magazine﻿ being LGBT-themed, nor does it leave much room to believe that the magazine would actually report on progressive or non-stereotypical goings on in countries like India.

Happened numerous of times before here in Malaysia. So it is possible that a python can consume a full sized human. It grows up to 30 over feet. The longest I've seen near where I stay in the city forest reserve is 6 - 7 meters long. Picked up a small ones before.

I have lived in Tampa Florida since 1979 and have never heard of a 13 year old being eaten by a python! I have a friend that had a 30 ft/300 pound reticulated that was given to Busch Gardens a few years ago so i am very atuned to this kind of news. That being said yes a large reticulated could eat a small sized human.

I own pythons & there's no way that could happen. As they eat they crush the bones of their prey which aids in the digestion process. As they are swallowing & the bones crushing, the prey becomes completely disfigured when passing down the neck and becomes elongated to almost twice it's original length. Even if it did swallow something that size, not only

could it NOT get its jaw over suh a drastic size difference from a head to shoulder but there's absolutely NO way it would have held its shape on the way down to where you could tell what it is. Not possible.

there. and I am biology profesor. it happens rarely, but it happens. many people who hold extreme wild animals think they know alot about them. do you know that every time python lays near you he is just measuring your body to see if he can eat you. thats how goes life with pythons, and people think that when python lay near them on bed that python is trained. just wait...one night is all what takes. happened to my friend.

Bruch, that is simply not true. Please remember that a 13 foot python can swallow a 12 foot alligator. While i don't know if this particular picture is a hoax, there are many, many documented cases of constrictors swallowing humans whole. Their jaws dislocate- they can easily fit large prey inside.

This is a Reticulated python. They have and can eat humans. No problem for a snake 17' - 20 + ' to eat a small human. This happens more then you would think. No different then a Grizzly killing and consuming a human. South East Asia and the Phillipines......Looks like it ate a baby cow! Google snake eats hippo, snake eats cow and you will see first hand how wide they can open their mouths. It's beyond comprehension.

This is a reticulated python. They can and have eaten people. There are documented cases. You simply do not hear about it much. No different then a Grizzly eating a person. These snakes do kill people and it is common....

A python can dislocate its jaw to swallow pray but it could never swallow a human pythons swallow there pray head first so it would not be able to get passed the shoulders of a human as that is the widest part of the body.

Looks very photoshopped; that snake's head is not big enough to swallow a person. There has never been a verified case of a python successfully consuming a person, though they do kill by constriction from time to time. If the photo turns out not to have been photoshopped, it still doesn't contain an human. The bulge could be a goat, sheep, pig or calf, all common prey items.